He hated opposition to the powers on the part of any below himself, yet scorned the idea of submitting to persecution.
"What think you of that, sir ?" asked Donal.
"Sheer nonsense!" answered the minister.

"Where would Scotland be now but for resistance ?" "There's more than one way of resisting, though," returned Donal.
"Enduring evil was the Lord's way.

I don't know about Scotland, but I fancy there would be more Christians, and of a better stamp, in the world, if that had been the mode of resistance always adopted by those that called themselves such.

Anyhow it was his way." "Shelley's, you mean!" "I don't mean Shelley's, I mean Christ's.

In spirit Shelley was far nearer the truth than those who made him despise the very name of Christianity without knowing what it really was.